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Mardi Gras Meringues are a simple purple, yellow, and green Mardi Gras dessert made from only a couple ingredients.
This recipe is a great way to celebrate Mardi Gras at home. Click that link for more ways to celebrate.
Our clubhouse had a Mardi Gras party this year. They had one two years ago and I made Mardi Gras Candy Bark to bring. This year, I decided to make Mardi Gras Meringues.
I’ll be honest. The Mardi Gras Meringues were a lot more time consuming than the candy bark. And sticky. Meringue batter is so, so sticky.
But the meringues are so pretty. They sort of look like tie dye meringues, so if I ever get invited to a Psychedelic ’60s party, I’m making these but in different colors.
For Mardi Gras, you’re gonna wanna stick with the traditional Mardi Gras colors: purple, green, and gold.
But, as far as I know, there’s no gold food color. So yellow will have to do.
Mardi Gras Meringues Recipe
Mardi Gras Meringues Ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspooncream of tartar
- 2 tablespoons vanilla
- 2/3 cups sugar
- Purple food color
- Green food color
- Yellow food color
How To Make Mardi Gras Meringues:
Pre-heat the oven to 250 F.
Separate the eggs.
Put the egg whites into a stand mixer and put the yolks to the side (you won’t need them for this meringue cookie recipe).
Add the salt, cream of tartar, and vanilla to the stand mixer bowl. Beat on high for 2 minutes until the eggs are foamy.
Add in the sugar and beat on high for 10 minutes until stiff peaks form.
Beating on high is the key here. If you don’t beat on high, you won’t get the stiff peaks.
Separate the meringue equally into three bowls.
Add six to eight drops of purple food color to one bowl, add six to eight drops of green to a second, and add six to eight drops of yellow to the last.
Very carefully, fold the food color into the meringue. Resist the urge to stir the food color in as that will flatten the meringue.
Set a 1M piping tip on a piping bag. Keep in mind this is an extra large piping tip, so you’ll need to pair it with a large coupler.
Put a scoop of the yellow meringue in the piping bag, being really careful to keep it to one side. Scoop the green in a second section of the piping bag, then finish with the purple.
Carefully push the meringue down the piping bag.
Pipe the cookies onto a silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet. The first few may come out with one of the colors dominant, but just keep going and you’ll get all three colors in one.
Refill the piping bag as needed until you’re out of meringue.
Bake for 40 minutes.
Turn off the oven, but leave the Mardi Gras Meringue Cookies inside for an hour to cool. If you take them out too early, the meringue will be really chewy.
Mardi Gras Meringues: Frequently Asked Questions
Can you add sprinkles to look like Mardi Gras beads?
You might be thinking about adding sprinkles to act as Mardi Gras beads. Don’t.
I tried that on a few of them, but I didn’t love it. It just looked like sprinkles and covered the beauty of the cookie.
So, learn from my test and skip the sprinkles.
Are meringues supposed to be chewy?
Meringues are not supposed to be chewy.
If your have sticky meringues, there’s a good chance that you didn’t bake them long enough and took them out of the oven without letting them cool in the oven for an hour.
Leaving meringues in the oven allows them to dry and crisp in the middle, so they won’t be a soggy, chewy bite.
How do you keep meringues fresh?
Let the meringues cool after you take them out of the oven. Then, put them in an airtight container. They’ll last for about three weeks that way.
After that, the meringues will stop being dry and will be chewy. They’ll still be edible, but they won’t be delicious.
Do you need to use a piping bag?
Usually, I say that instead of a piping bag you can just use a ziptop plastic bag. But in this case, you can’t.
The difference is that a piping bag is shaped as a triangle and a ziptop plastic bag is a square. You need that triangle shape, and the size of the bag, to be able to separate the three meringue colors. Plus, you need the wide opening that you can get in a piping bag to make decent sized cookies when you’re piping meringues.
In a ziptop bag, the colors will really mix together because there’s not enough room for them to stay separated.
Do you need to use a silicone baking mat when making meringues?
You absolutely need to use a silicone baking mat when making meringues. After they’re baked, they’ll pop right off the silicone baking mat without getting stuck at all.
If you try to bake these directly on a cookie sheet, they’ll get stuck and you’ll have a tough time getting the meringues off the cookie sheet.
If you don’t have a silicone baking mat, I highly suggest you invest in one. I use mine all the time for everything from cookies to French fries.
Purchase Mardi Gras Cookies Online:
If you like these Mardi Gras Meringues Cookies, but you don’t feel like making them, you’re in luck. You can’t purchase similar ones, plus other Mardi Gras Cookies, online at the links below:
- Mardi Gras Lemon Juniper Meringue Kisses (pictured above)
- 1 Dozen Mardi Gras Sugar Cookies
- Mardi Gras Mask Cookies
- 1 dozen Mardi Gras Cookies (Gator Cookies, Mardi Mask Cookies, Louisiana Cookie, and more)
More Meringue Cookie Recipes:
These Mardi Gras Meringues aren’t the only meringue cookie recipe that we have on Drugstore Divas. Our other favorites are below:
- Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies
- Unicorn Poop Meringue Cookies
- Ghost Meringue Cookies
Yield: 48 Cookies
Mardi Gras Meringues are a simple purple, yellow, and green Mardi Gras dessert made from only a couple ingredients.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time40 minutes
Additional Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 2 tablespoons vanilla
- 2/3 cups sugar
- Purple food color
- Green food color
- Yellow food color
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 250 F.
- Separate the eggs. Put the whites into a stand mixer.
- Add the salt, cream of tartar, and vanilla to the stand mixer bowl. Beat on high for 2 minutes until the eggs are foamy.
- Add in the sugar and beat on high for 10 minutes until stiff peaks form.
- Separate the meringue into three bowls. Add six to eight drops of purple food color to one bowl, add six to eight drops of green to a second, and add six to eight drops of yellow to the last. Very carefully, fold the food color into the meringue.
- Set a1M piping tipon a piping bag. Keep in mind this is an extra large piping tip, so you’ll need to pair it with alarge coupler.
- Put a scoop of the yellow meringue in the piping bag, being really careful to keep it to one side. Scoop the green in a second section, then finish with the purple.
- Carefully push the meringue down the piping bag.
- Pipe the cookies onto asilicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet.
- Refill the piping bag as needed until you’re out of meringue.
- Bake for 40 minutes. Turn off the oven, but leave the Mardi Gras Meringue Cookies inside for an hour to cool.
Nutrition Information
Yield
48Serving Size
1
Amount Per ServingCalories 17Total Fat 0gSaturated Fat 0gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 0gCholesterol 12mgSodium 16mgCarbohydrates 3gFiber 0gSugar 3gProtein 0g
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